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View Poll Results: Since the start of 2020, which format are you currently using most to listen to music

I use lossless files in my home office, where most of my listening is done. If I am in the living room where the big stereo rig is, then it's CDs (my turntable went tits up in 2018). If I want to play music that I have only on digital in the living room, I bring in the laptop and DAC, run it into that stereo.

I only stream when I'm working in the kitchen and its easier to annoy my wife with just streaming something obnoxious from the Echo device there. This morning she walked into "It's a Long Way to the Top" by AC/DC. "What is that racket?" "Oh, they're running a bagpipe through a guitar amp." Leaves, muttering about my musical taste. If it had been prog or jazz, I would have been accused of playing "wanker music".

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart

Download mainly, if that's not possible the cd,.never vinyl, never streaming.

Ian

Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.

Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.

I buy CD's first, bandcamp etc downloads second.
I rip all cd's and listen to the files in flac or mp3.
No streaming.
But I have been ripping Casettes and vinyl that I have owned since the 70's.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Unknown

I think there's a difference between a moderator starting a poll infrequently, vs. having to endure ten polls a week about favorite ELP album, favorite VdGG album, favorite Trevor Rabin album, etc.? I don't want this place to become inundated with polls but I have no problem with this one.

Anyway, I typically buy things on CD and then rip them to MP3 for playback on PC or smartphone. I'll usually only play the physical format at the radio station.